Audience Quotes · Page 116

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

— Caroline Polachek

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

— Judy Garland

There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.

— Samuel Barber

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

— Bernie Mac

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very…

— Bob Hope

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

— Dan Graham

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

— Fiona Shaw

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what…

— Tod Goldberg

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on…

— D. H. Lawrence

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing,…

— Britney Spears

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I…

— Jerry Garcia

You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you.…

— David Ayer

Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through…

— Christopher Nolan

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face…

— Jim Carroll

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are…

— Suzanne Farrell

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was…

— J. Tillman

The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's…

— Jonathan Sadowski

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm just focused on getting to the end of each show and feeling like we've done a good job when we walk…

— Aldous Harding

Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of…

— Roger Ebert

Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket…

— Gordon Chan

Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by…

— James Carver

The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday…

— Norm MacDonald

You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is…

— Chuck D

I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

— DJ Quik

There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!

— Michael Patrick Walker

I'm a frail-looking wheelchair-using standup, and the audience are stunned when I take the mic.

— Liz Carr

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

— Simon McBurney

“Who is your audience; who are you speaking to? This is one of the most important aspects of oratory. Your”

— Virender Kapoor

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white…

— G-Eazy

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.

— Wayne White

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

— Natalie Portman

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

— Joshua Leonard

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

— Anthony Quinn

To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.

— Pedro Capo

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

— Seth

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

— Doug Liman

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

— Om Puri

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

— Gore Vidal

The audience for facts, evidence and research about microtargeting, Facebook and Brexit is tiny.

— Dominic Cummings